Double-Balanced Gilbert Mixer with Current Bleeding for RF Front-End Using 0.13μm SiGe BiCMOS Technology

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Conference Proceeding
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IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, 2017, 2017-June
Issue Date:
2017-11-14
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© 2017 IEEE. This paper presents the design of a differential double-balanced Gilbert mixer in 0.13 um SiGe BiCMOS technology. A current-bleeding injection technique is adopted to increase the bias current at the driver stage without causing overvoltage headroom at the differential pair stage. This mechanism improves the performance in terms of conversion gain, linearity and noise figure. The proposed mixer achieves 10.7 dB conversion gain, 15 dB noise figure, -1.67 dBm 1-dB compression point, and 5 dBm IIP3. The designed double balanced Gilbert mixer with current bleeding is part of an integrated RF front-end for full duplex radio applications in the 2.4 GHz band and occupies an area of 0.1002 × 0.0748 mm2 excluding the pads.
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